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The following is a list of some significant cities and towns in Iceland:

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Above 100,000 inhabitants

10,000 – 100,000 inhabitants

1,000 – 10,000 inhabitants

Below 1,000 inhabitants

Population in December 1, 2007. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( The Greater Reykjavík area ( Icelandic: Höfuðborgarsvæðið meaning "the capital district" is the Metropolitan area of the Icelandic For the Greater Reykjavík Area see the Greater Reykjavík Area. For the Greater Reykjavík Area see the Greater Reykjavík Area. Akureyri ( is a town in the northern part of Iceland; it is the second largest urban area after Greater Reykjavík area but is the fourth For water inlet see Fjord. Hafnarfjörður or Hafnarfjordur is a port town located on the south-west Reykjanesbær is a municipality on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, it is made up of the towns Keflavík, Njarðvík and Kópavogur is Iceland 's second largest town with a population of 30000 History The town started to form in the 19th century as a fishing village and in 1942 it was formally chartered and in the following years experienced the biggest surge in population Álftanes is a low-lying Peninsula which extrudes from the eastern part of Reykjanes, located in Iceland 's Greater Reykjavík Borgarnes is a small town located on a Peninsula at the Shore of Borgarfjörður in Iceland. Dalvík is a Fishing Village in Eyjafjörður, Iceland. The Municipality of Dalvíkurbyggð was formed Egilsstaðir is a Town in East Iceland on the banks of Lagarfljót river Garður is a municipality located in western Iceland, on the Reykjanes peninsula Grindavík is a fishing town at the peninsula of Reykjanes at the south-western coast of Iceland. Höfn í Hornafirði is an Icelandic Fishery town in the southeastern part of the country Húsavík Iceland Hveragerði is a small town in the south of Iceland located 45 km to the east of Reykjavík on Iceland's main ringroad Route 1. Mosfellsbær is a town in western Iceland, situated some 106 miles (17 km north of the country’s capital Reykjavík. Neskaupstaður is a town located the fjord Norðfjörður on the eastern shore of Iceland. Laugardælir is a Town in Iceland. The town gained international attention when former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer was buried at the The fishing town Ólafsvík is situated on the western end of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in Iceland. Reyðarfjörður is a town in Iceland. The town is at the bottom of the epynomous largest fjord in the east coast of Iceland Sandgerðisbær (formerly Miðneshreppur) is an Icelandic municipality located in southwestern Iceland on the Reykjanes peninsula Sauðárkrókur is a town in Skagafjörður in northern Iceland, with a population of about 3000 people Siglufjörður The town of Stykkishólmur is situated in the western part of Iceland, to the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula Þorlákshöfn is a town on the southern coast of Iceland. Its main importance is as a Port as it has the only viable Harbour on Iceland's southern coastline Vogar (Sveitarfélagið Vogaris a small Town in the south-west of Iceland. Bifröst is a small settlement in western Iceland in the Mýrasýsla county Bíldudalur is a village situated in Arnarfjörður one of the Westfjords in Iceland. Blönduós is a small settlement in northwestern Iceland in the county of Austur-Húnavatnssýsla, 245 km from Reykjavík. Bolungavík is a Village in the North-West of Iceland,located at the Vestfirðir Peninsula, approximately 13 kilometers from the village Breiðdalsvík is a fishing town in Iceland. It is located near Egilsstaðir and Breiðdalsheiði. The village of Búðardalur is situated on the Hvammsfjörður in the north-west of Iceland. Eyrarbakki is a Fishing -town on the south-coast of Iceland with a population of about 577 people not including inhabitants of the prison located there Flúðir is a small village located in the region of Suðurland, Iceland. Grundarfjörður is a small town situated in the north of the Snæfellsnes peninsula in the west of Iceland. Hella is a small town with 750 inhabitants in the southern part of Iceland at the shores of the river Ytri-Rangá. Hellissandur is a part of Snæfellsbær at Snæfellsnes on West-Iceland Hólar is a small community with a population of around 100 located in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland, some 379 km from Reykjavík Hólmavík is a small town in the western part of Iceland, by Steingrímsfjörður. Hvammstangi is an Icelandic village in the north-west part of the country on Vatnsnes peninsula situated on the Miðfjörður. Hvolsvöllur is a small town in the south of Iceland about 106 km to the east of Reykjavík. The village Kirkjubæjarklaustur (ˈcʰɪrcʏˌpajarˌkʰløystʏr Icelandic: church farm cloister) is a town of approximately 160 inhabitants situated in the south Mjóifjörður is a village of 35 people in East Iceland, sitting on a fjord of the same name (meaning Narrow Fjord Ólafsfjörður There are two villages with this name in Iceland: Reykholt (Borgarfjörður West Iceland The village is situated in the valley of the river Reykjadalsá Skógar, ˈskouar literally forests, is a small Icelandic village located at the south of the Eyjafjallajökull Glacier, in the municipality Stokkseyri, a small town in Southern Iceland, with a population of around 530 inhabitants Stöðvarfjörður is a small village in east Iceland. It sits on a Fjord of the same name The village Vík in the south of Iceland is indicated on road signs from a long distance (about 180  km from Reykjavík) despite its Vopnafjörður is a village in the north-eastern part of Iceland, situated in a Fjord with the same name Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican

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|||} The municipalities of Iceland are local administrative areas that provide a number of services to their inhabitants such as Kindergartens |||} Iceland is traditionally divided into 23 counties, sýslur, and 25 independent towns kaupstaðir. Iceland is divided into 6 constituencies for the purpose of selecting representatives to the Alþingi (parliament
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